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noun a human being
adjective subject to death
adjective involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
originFrom Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). In this sense, displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.
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